Canute was actually pretty badass, not deluded and was demonstrating that there were some things that he did not have control over.

This just demonstrates that climate skepticism is not just about debate for debate's sake, laws like this do harm.

Yes, he knew he would not be able to cause the tide to turn, and so do the GOP in NC, but they want to fool the people into thinking they can to prevent the loss of investment in the coast. The problem is the insurance companies are not swayed by this type of thing and will stop any investment that cannot pay the very high premiums or cannot afford to self insure when the insurance companies will not touch it.

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“It’s becoming tough on any kind of economic development if we don’t start using common sense in some of this rule-making,” said Sen. Harry Brown, a Republican who represents coastal Jones and Onslow counties.

The bill’s main backer, Republican Sen. David Rouzer of Johnson and Wayne counties, said the more severe prediction of sea-level rise would sink property values, hurt tax revenues and inflate insurance rates. He said that predicting climate eight decades out is folly.

The legislation gives the state Coastal Resources Commission sole responsibility for predicting the rate of sea-level rise to be used as a basis for state and local regulations. The commission’s 15 members are appointed by the governor.

But the legislation also defines how the Coastal Resources Commission is to decide sea-level rates. Specifically, the law says forecasts can be based on historical data only and can’t take into account non-historical factors. The key factor that’s disqualified is the belief that greenhouse gases are causing climate change and speeding up glacier melts.

The push to rollback climate change science came from N.C.-20, a nonprofit that promotes economic development in the 20 coastal counties. The group’s chairman, Tom Thompson, is a Beaufort County economic development director.

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A set of sea-level curves is presented in Figure 2, which present scenarios of differing rates of SLR acceleration. The curves are projected to 90 years in the future (2100 AD) and the initial rate of rise is set at 4.27 mm per year (Zervas, 2004). A rise of 0.4 meter (15 inches) is considered a minimum, since this is the amount of rise that will occur given a linear projection with zero acceleration. Various models and observations indicate that accelerated rates of SLR in the future are likely (IPCC, 2007; Rahmstorf, 2007; Pfeffer et al., 2008). In fact, various investigations indicate a two- to four-fold increase in rates of rise over the last century (Church and White, 2006; Rahmstorf, 2007; Kemp et al., 2009).

Rahmstorf (2007) proposed that there is a roughly proportional relationship between global mean near-surface air temperature and global MSL. Rahmstorf’s “method” for projecting future SLR has been adopted by several states and municipalities. The method has produced highly accurate hindcast results, particularly for the thermal expansion component of rise, and predicts a total rise of 0.50 meter to 1.4 meters (20 to 55 inches) by 2100. Rahmstorf cautions that delayed positive feedbacks might result in the method underestimating the contribution from land ice, resulting in total rise of over 1.4 meters. In spite of this caveat, the Science Panel believes that the Rahmstorf method is robust and 1.4 meters a reasonable upper limit for projected rise.

Pfeffer et al (2008) attempted to constrain the upper limit of land ice contribution to sea level by investigating the physical ability of glaciers and ice sheets to discharge into the ocean. The research was intended to provide a basis and methodology for incorporating land ice contributions into calculations of future global MSL. The research concluded that a range of 0.80 meter to 2 meters is a more plausible range than the figures presented by the IPCC. A 2-meter rise is considered very unlikely, but still possible, and could only occur with rapidly accelerated and very high rates of warming and ice sheet melting.

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We propose a simple relationship linking global sea-level variationson time scales of decades to centuries to global meantemperature. This relationship is tested on synthetic data from aglobal climate model for the past millennium and the next century.When applied to observed data of sea level and temperature for1880–2000, and taking into account known anthropogenic hydrologiccontributions to sea level, the correlation is >0.99, explaining98% of the variance. For future global temperature scenarios of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth AssessmentReport, the relationship projects a sea-level rise ranging from 75 to190 cm for the period 1990–2100.

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This international scientific assessment has been carried out at the request of theDutch Delta Committee. The Committee requested that the assessment explorethe high-end climate change scenarios for flood protection of the Netherlands. Itis a state-of–the art scientific assessment of the upper bound values and longerterm projections (for sea level rise up to 2200) of climate induced sea level rise,changing storm surge conditions and peak discharge of river Rhine. It comprisesa review of recent studies, model projections and expert opinions of more than20 leading climate scientists from different countries around the North Sea,Australia and the USA. Although building on the previous IPCC AR4 (2007) andKNMI (2006) assessments, this report deliberately explores low probability/highimpact scenarios, which will pose significant threats to the safety of people andinfrastructure and capital invested below sea level. According to its high-endestimates global mean sea level may rise in the range of 0.55 - 1.10 m in 2100and 1.5 - 3.5 m in 2200, when higher temperature rise scenarios (up to 6 °C by2100) and increased ice discharge from Antarctica are considered. This wouldcorrespond with local sea levels along the coast of the Netherlands of up tomaximally 1.20 m in 2100 and 4 m in 2200. An increase in peak discharge ofriver Rhine of 3 to 19% for 2050 and 6 to 38% for 2100 is foreseen. The stormregime along the Dutch North Sea coast in terms of maximum surge level willprobably not change significantly in this extreme climate change frame.

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